We see 3 hermaphrodites every week – AKTH paediatric surgeon
The discovery of seven persons with sex differentiation disorder also known as intersex or hermaphroditism in Kano recently was greeted with awe because of the low awareness about the condition.
Professor Mohammad Aminu Mohammad of the Paediatric Surgery Department, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), told Daily Trust that every week three patients with cases of ambiguous genitalia are seen in the hospital.
Prof Mohammad said an intersex or a hermaphrodite was a disorder of sex differentiation where patients, children or newborns were born with neither classically female external genitalia nor classical male external genitalia.